Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If you listen carefully, you can hear the sound of one picture clapping;-) Slobodan Dimitrov - ---------- >From: "bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> >To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Subject: RE: [Leica] digitalrebel -- Matchless Quality >Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2003, 11:47 AM > > When did this become the Zen Bullshit List? :-) > > "Perhaps two mountain peaks rise through the clouds: Tradition and > Content. > Leica gives us Tradition. > Our talent gives us Content." > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of > Afterswift@aol.com > Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 12:33 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] digitalrebel -- Matchless Quality > > > > In a message dated 8/22/03 7:53:25 AM, bdcolen@earthlink.net writes: > > << If one can comfortably use a Leica lens > manufactured in, say, 1955, a Leica lens which may not have even then > been up to the standards being set by Zeiss and Nikon, and a lens which > is now a Coke-bottle-bottom when compared to the latest Leica lenses, > why can't one buy a 5 mgp digital camera and be happy with it for the > next five to 10 years? >> > ------------------------------------------------- > Perhaps two mountain peaks rise through the clouds: Tradition and > Content. > Leica gives us Tradition. > Our talent gives us Content. Those are constants. Lens quality may > improve, > but always within the Tradition of quality. At this point in time, > digital has > not earned a tradition. It may never. A Leica label on a camera doesn't > bestow > Tradition. The fact of quality does. What we accept as defining quality > is a > personal opinion, until it jells as it did for the Ms as a consensus. As > to > meaningful Content, that's up to us individually. Combine Tradition with > Content > and you have matchless quality. > > br > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html